BAGHDAD:  At least 20,000 children are trapped in jihadist bastion Fallujah under siege by Iraqi forces

PANAMA CITY:  The law firm at the heart of the Panama Papers revelations is closing its offices in the

WASHINGTON:  Workers at the Cincinnati Zoo in the US state of Ohio shot and killed a gorilla on Saturday

WASHINGTON:  US President Barack Obama on Friday wrapped up a historic trip to Asia, where he sought

NEAR FALLUJAH, Iraq:  Hundreds of people fled the Fallujah area Friday as forces pressed simultaneous

MOSCOW:  Vadim Pokrovsky stunned hundreds of students at a conference in Moscow last week when he reached

BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah on Saturday blamed Islamist extremists for killing the Shiite militant

BRASILIA:  Brazil’s acting president Michel Temer vowed Friday to get Latin America’s largest

CAIRO:  Gunmen shot dead eight plainclothed Egyptian policemen in the Helwan district south of Cairo,

GHAZNI, Afghanistan:  At least 73 people were killed Sunday when two buses and an oil tanker burst into

ISTANBUL:  Turkish forces launched a salvo of artillery strikes on northern Syria that killed 55 members

WASHINGTON:  It could be a case of racial profiling — or doing math in the wrong place at the

CAIRO:  An Egyptian court recommended death sentences on Saturday for six codefendants of Mohamed Morsi

WASHINGTON:  The Pentagon acknowledged for the first time Friday it has deployed US troops to Yemen

KATHMANDU:  Nepal has recalled its ambassador to India and cancelled an upcoming visit by its president

MUMBAI: An Indian court on Friday struck down a tough law that had banned the consumption of beef in

RIYADH: A Saudi police officer has been shot dead in the Mecca region, the interior ministry said on

YANGON:  Myanmar’s president has urged the creation of a new ministry for Aung San Suu Kyi’s

NEW DELHI:  Anyone distributing a map the Indian government deems to be “wrong” could be